Next-to-leading mass singularities in two-loop electroweak singlet form factors
Abstract
We consider virtual electroweak corrections to the form factors for massless chiral fermions coupling to an SU(2)xU(1) singlet gauge boson in the asymptotic region , where the invariant mass of the external gauge boson is much higher than the weak-boson mass scale. Using the sector-decomposition method we compute mass singularities, which arise as logarithms of and poles in dimensions, to one- and two-loop next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. In this approximation we include all contributions of order , with and . We find that the electroweak two-loop leading- and next-to-leading-logarithmic mass singularities can be written in a form that corresponds to a generalization of Catani's formula for massless QCD.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0401087,
title = {Next-to-leading mass singularities in two-loop electroweak singlet form factors},
author = {S. Pozzorini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0401087},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
38 pages. Minor modifications. Version published in Nucl.Phys.B